1895.] Nagendranatha Vasii — Sn^unia Eock Iiiscriytiun. Ill 



Pafijabl. Mr. Bomford now shows that wliat has hitherto been called 

 Multanl, from the place where it was first observed, is not a border 

 language between SindhI and Paiijabl at all. It is the language of the 

 Parijrib, west of, roughly speaking, the Jhelum, till it meets the Pashtu 

 spoken west of the Indus. PaujabI has hitherto been measured by the 

 standard of Amritsar, a town some forty miles East of Lahore, midway 

 between the Ravi and the Satlaj, and our grammars, dictionaries, and 

 literature have been based entirely on the language of the East of the Paii- 

 jab. The Grammars stated, and it was known as a general fact, that the 

 language of the Western Pan jab differed from that of the East, but 

 few attempts, till Mr. Bomford undertook the task, were made to in- 

 vestigate the points of difference, and it was too readily assumed that 

 Panjabi had two dialects, — a Standard and a Western. Mr. Bomford's 

 grammar shows that this is not true. That Western PaTijdbl can in no 

 sense he called a dialect of standard Panjahl, hut is altogether a distinct 

 language closely connected ivitli, and forming the connecting link hetwecn 

 Sindhl and Kacmlrl. 



These three languages, Sindhi, Western Paiijabi, and Kacmiri, can 

 now be classed as forming a North- Western Family of Indo- Aryan Ver- 

 naculars, markedly differing from what has hitherto been called the 

 Western, but must now be called the Central Family, and having curi- 

 ously intimate relations with the Eastern language of Assam and with 

 the Aryan languages spoken in the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. 



This interesting fact opens out wide ethnological questions, on which 

 I am now engaged, and I hope, at an early date, to be able to place the 

 result of my researches before the Society. 



This paper will be published in the Journal^ Part I. 



2. On a case of Aghorpantl asm from the Sdran District, Behar. — By 

 Babu Sarat Candra Mitra. Communicated by the Anthropological 

 Secretary. 



3. Eastern Nagas of the Tirap and Namtsik. — By S. E. Peal, Esq., 

 These papers will be published in the Journal, Part III. 



4. Susunia Rock Inscription of Candra-varman, — By Nagendra- 



NATHA VaSU. 



This inscription has been found on the Susunia hill, in the district 

 of Bankura, 12 miles to the north-west from the head-quarters and 1 7 

 miles south -south- west from the Ranigaiij Station of the East India 

 Railway. Passengers travelling by that Railway past the stations 

 of Durgapur, Ondal and Ranigaiij, see the hill with its two peaks 

 towards the south-south-west verge of the horizon, like the head and 

 back of a huge elephant facing the west. The whole hill from the 



